Vinyl acetate is used in the preparation of polyvinyl acetate emulsions and polyvinyl alcohol. It acts as a precursor to polyvinyl acetate. It serves as an ingredient in furniture-glue. It is also used to prepare copolymers with other monomers such as ethylene, acrylic acid. Further, it is used to make adhesives, paints and plastics.
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Applications
Vinyl acetate is used in the preparation of polyvinyl acetate emulsions and polyvinyl alcohol. It acts as a precursor to polyvinyl acetate. It serves as an ingredient in furniture-glue. It is also used to prepare copolymers with other monomers such as ethylene, acrylic acid. Further, it is used to make adhesives, paints and plastics.
Solubility
Slightly miscible with water.
Notes
Light sensitive. Incompatible with acids, bases, oxidizing agents, peroxides, chlorosulfonic acid, ethylene imine, hydrochloric acid, oleum, nitric acid, sulfuric acid and 2-aminoethanol.
RUO – Research Use Only
General References:
- For example of mercuric acetate-catalyzed transesterification to long-chain vinyl esters, see: Org. Synth. Coll., 4, 977 (1963).
- For thermal [2+2] cycloaddition with chlorotrifluoroethylene, see: Org. Synth. Coll., 5, 235 (1973); and with chlorosulfonyl isocyanate to give a ß-lactam: Org. Synth. Coll., 8, 3 (1993).
- Dong, X.; Guan, X.; Jiang, Y.; Ma, J.; Zhang, M. Extension of the TraPPE-UA force field to the simulation of vapor-liquid phase equilibria of vinyl acetate system. J. Mol. Liq. 2015, 209, 520-525.
- Belbekhouche, S.; Picton, L.; Le Cerf, D.; Hamaide, T. Pullulan-Based Polymer Surfactants for Vinyl Acetate Miniemulsion Polymerization: Kinetics and Colloidal Stability Investigations. Macromol. Chem. Phys. 2015, 216 (18), 1879-1887.